I hope I’m wrong. I don’t think I am, but one can always hope. Really. Yesterday I did a long hive inspection. It was warm and there was no wind, the bees were flying, and it was time to find out what’s happening inside. I did short inspections before, but this time I pulled out …
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We’re a Can-Do Kind of People
Today I found a study in contrasts in the boot of my station wagon: a cello, a chain saw. Once home, we hooked a rope to the car, tied the other end around a log in the big pile, then I reversed to pull the trunk out so DH could cut it up. DH and I …
Riot for Austerity – Month 29
It’s already 6 April but I know I doubt I’ll have  time at the end of the month, so here are our numbers for March + 5 days of April. It’ll all even out. Our first year’s averages were calculated here, our second year’s averages can be found here. Gasoline. Same as usual. I’m doing a lot of …
Doing vs. Undergoing
I must admit that I am down-hearted. I have managed for a couple of days now to avoid the news. A quick check in the morning and the evening and quickly look away again. Nuclear has always been my bugbear. I was 15 in Belgium when Chernobyl happened and it impressed me tremendously. That was …
Dare to Dream
The future is all around us (Sherlock Holmes) As I was drafting this in my journal I was thinking how wonderful it is to have a place – my journal – where I can dream without fear and doubt. Then I thought, hey, I can do that on the blog too. Here goes: Plans for …
A Five-Year-Old’s Physics, Biology, Meteorology, Etc.
Amie drew her family for school (DH, Mama, Amie) ~ A: Water isn’t heavy. It’s just air that’s blue and wet. ~ I found her hiding behind a tiny notebook. I asked her if hiding her face makes her entirely invisible. Incredibly, she did seem to believe this. Then she thought about it for a …
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A Flower Garden for Bees and People
Our back garden, house and veg garden are on a little hill. The slope (in red) is quite steep, and we terraced the part where the soil had been disturbed and was eroding. We put beds on either side (only the two lowest ones shown in brown) and a path of grass in the middle. …
The Big Plans for 2010
After two weeks of virtually no blogging, it’s lists like these that can get me going again. Yesterday I listed this week’s goals, today I’m looking at the Big Homesteading Plans for 2010. There is some sort of order here, but don’t ask me which. Chicken coop (cob? attached to greenhouse? moat?) and 6 (?) …
Quiet
… I know, it’s quiet here. First of all, we’ve been ill – Amie is much better now; we’re now even doubting whether it was the flu at all. Secondly I took the Training for Transition last weekend and I am still exhausted and exhilarated – too much so that I can’t yet write about …
Amie’s First Journal Entry
Amie has often expressed an interest in my journal – in the book itself (the journalist Moleskine) and in the process. I haven’t been writing in my journal regularly, but over this weekend revived my resolution to do so. This morning I pulled it and she asked if she could have a journal too, just …